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Cooking crossword
Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Across
- 2 Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 5 Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 7 Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 9 Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 11 Cook gently just below a boil
- 12 Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 13 Chop into small cubes, or gambling cubes
- 14 Perforated bowl for draining pasta
Down
- 1 Living ingredient that makes bread rise
- 3 Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 4 Herb common in pizza sauce
- 6 Step-by-step instructions for a dish
- 8 Warm the oven before baking
- 9 Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 10 Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
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Show the answer key
- 1 down: YEAST. Living ingredient that makes bread rise
- 2 across: BASTE. Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 3 down: SAUTE. Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 4 down: OREGANO. Herb common in pizza sauce
- 5 across: GRATER. Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 6 down: RECIPE. Step-by-step instructions for a dish
- 7 across: KNEAD. Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 8 down: PREHEAT. Warm the oven before baking
- 9 across: SPATULA. Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 9 down: SKILLET. Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 10 down: APRON. Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
- 11 across: SIMMER. Cook gently just below a boil
- 12 across: BROIL. Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 13 across: DICE. Chop into small cubes, or gambling cubes
- 14 across: COLANDER. Perforated bowl for draining pasta
Across
- 3 Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 5 Perforated bowl for draining pasta
- 8 Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 9 Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 10 Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
- 12 Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 13 Step-by-step instructions for a dish
Down
- 1 Herb common in pizza sauce
- 2 Warm the oven before baking
- 4 Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 6 Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 7 Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 9 Cook gently just below a boil
- 11 Wire tool for beating eggs
Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
Show the answer key
- 1 down: OREGANO. Herb common in pizza sauce
- 2 down: PREHEAT. Warm the oven before baking
- 3 across: BASTE. Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 4 down: SKILLET. Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 5 across: COLANDER. Perforated bowl for draining pasta
- 6 down: GRATER. Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 7 down: KNEAD. Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 8 across: BROIL. Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 9 across: SPATULA. Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 9 down: SIMMER. Cook gently just below a boil
- 10 across: APRON. Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
- 11 down: WHISK. Wire tool for beating eggs
- 12 across: SAUTE. Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 13 across: RECIPE. Step-by-step instructions for a dish
Across
- 2 Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 6 Step-by-step instructions for a dish
- 7 Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 11 Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 12 Cook gently just below a boil
- 13 Living ingredient that makes bread rise
- 15 Perforated bowl for draining pasta
Down
- 1 Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 3 Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 4 Chop into small cubes, or gambling cubes
- 5 Herb common in pizza sauce
- 8 Wire tool for beating eggs
- 9 Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 10 Warm the oven before baking
- 11 Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 14 Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
Show the answer key
- 1 down: GRATER. Box-shaped gadget for shredding cheese
- 2 across: BROIL. Cook with heat from above in the oven
- 3 down: KNEAD. Work dough with the heels of your hands
- 4 down: DICE. Chop into small cubes, or gambling cubes
- 5 down: OREGANO. Herb common in pizza sauce
- 6 across: RECIPE. Step-by-step instructions for a dish
- 7 across: SAUTE. Cook quickly in a little hot fat
- 8 down: WHISK. Wire tool for beating eggs
- 9 down: BASTE. Spoon pan juices over roasting meat
- 10 down: PREHEAT. Warm the oven before baking
- 11 across: SPATULA. Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- 11 down: SKILLET. Heavy pan for frying on the stovetop
- 12 across: SIMMER. Cook gently just below a boil
- 13 across: YEAST. Living ingredient that makes bread rise
- 14 down: APRON. Worn to keep splatters off your clothes
- 15 across: COLANDER. Perforated bowl for draining pasta
About Cooking
Cooking runs on precision verbs. To simmer is to hold liquid just below the boil, where bubbles rise lazily instead of churning; to broil is to cook from heat above rather than below. Kneading develops gluten strands that give bread its chew, and basting spoons drippings back over roasting meat to keep the surface from drying. Learn the vocabulary and a recipe stops being a puzzle: each instruction names one specific action, done one specific way.
A home cook building kitchen confidence, or a family and consumer sciences student reviewing technique terms before a lab.
What is in this crossword
A 19 by 17 crossword with 8 across and 7 down, on the subject of Cooking.
- Grid
- 19 x 17
- Across
- 8
- Down
- 7
- Longest answer
- COLANDER (8 letters)